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OAKLAND TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1941 how to Jake a cakei Notables to Stewart Now Sergeant in CURTAIN CALLS: ANOTHER NOBLE EXPERIMENT FAILS 'She Knew Answers' At Esquire 'Blondie in Society' Also Featured on New Screen Program U.S. Afmy SISTER-IN-LAW I I See Opening, Of Theater Work Nearly Complete On New Telenews Showhouse in Oakland Herbert Sheftel. and Alfred C.t" He Peeled a Few Spuds And Then Began Promotions! Opera at Light Costs Faithful packers $23,000 Total 'l By WOOD SOANES Another noble experiment has gone by the boards and Los Angeles is no longer entertaining popular priced light opera at the old Mason Opera House. By JOHN TRUESDEIX HOLLYWOOD, July 10, Even In Burger, president and secretary re By WOOD SOANES What chance has a hapless male. the Army, Jimmy Stewart can't get spectively of the National Telenews Theaters, will arrive by plane from New York City to attend the opening here Friday, July 18, of Oakland's first newsreel theater, the away from being a movie star.

the movie script writers are asking on the screen of the Esquire this week, when a pretty female decides Private Stewart scrubbed a few potatoes and did a little marching if -1 I I I I Telenews at Franklin and 15th Streets. with the Army's publicity cameras to trap him? The answer as expounded in "She Knew All the Answers" and "Blondie in Society" is none, but definitely. "She Knew All the Answers" Is a Joan Bennett-Franchot Tone-Eve Ardcn-John Hubbard item in which The firm operates Telenews thea Some time bacfc devoted a good deal oi space to tne bright idea of Arthur Spitz, a refugee producer, who felt ters in principal metropolitan centers including New York. Chicaao rf. mk i popping merrily.

Then he was promoted. Corporal Stewart set out on a tour of enlistment centers, this time in a far better fitting uniform. Cleveland, Los Angeles and San Mat mere were enougn people witn smaii pocKei-DooKs anu Francisco. Miss Bennett is a spangled cafe girl 0 genuine love OI guuu limbic iu mane iiau ugui uyum More pictures were taken. Now All the resources of telegraphic.

who very nearly marries Hubbard a wealthy playboy when Tone, the For a while it looked as it Sergeant Stewart faces every weight-1 radio and newsreel services will be available to the Telenews. Its opening will mark the first time an Oak the stock steadily sliding down as youthful guardian of the playboy intervenes to the annoyance of Miss he had the right idea, and showmen began to keep tabs ler duties with his smiling face always pointed towards a battery of it is. Mary Plckford has decided to pro. land theater will take and make purely local newsreel subjects for on his take. It was generally cameramen.

If this dizzy success story continues Sergeant Stewart will ulti duce "Soquette" as soon as she can local exhibition. find a suitable star. She did it her Contractors in the meantime are admitted that the shows were excellent despite the fact that the players were for the most part John Hubbard; Joan Bennett and Eve Arden go into confer self In 1929 Grade Fields left Arden, a sister chorine of Miss Bennett, who has been dreaming of yachts. From that brief summation it may seem that "She Knew All the Answers" is very, very familiar stuff, and when you see a Foyle" sequence, done in quadruplicate, it is patent that the authors have been mately wind up as Major-General Stewart with the Chief of Staff's ence on a ticklish matter In "She Knew All the Answers' at for England via Clipper the other rapidly completing the work which will transform the former Franklin Theater into one of the most daughter as his bride. Then, according to his movie-scrint career, the Esquire.

comfortable and best equipped Tele he will go off to battle, slay the two day at the nod of Winston Churchill, who wants her to do some entertaining for the soldiers at home before starting on her next War Relief tour in America. She has raised $150,000 either pretty young ana untramea or pretty old. Gradually the novelty wore thin, however, and few weeks back Spitz decided to give up the ghost. dragons Hitler and Stalin and i visa. sti Fg'm news tneatcrs in the country.

Nearly twice the size in seating capacity to going to the movies in earnest and Clark Gable Film Costello Always in come back with Mussolini sniveling i i borrowing freely from hither and in a cage. The rade-nut will, no yon. for war relief and $168,000 for the Navy League. It cost $23,000 to discover that the nubile would rather get its light Over Week Trouble In Navy doubt, show a long kiss with M.ijnr-General Stewart being drafted by both parties for president. IN HOT WATER "Sergeant York" may be the first Yet, oddly enough, "She Knew All the Answers" is a lot of fun.

The principals, particularly Tone and Miss Bennett, are capital; the support is better than adequate and tnat oi ban iranciscos Telenews, the local house here will have nearly 800 seats and provide greatly increased clearance between rows. As shows change completely every hour, commencing, at 11 each morning, this advantage to patrons is obvious. Some 50 units will comprise each program. Helene Millard who sometimes, has to laugh at the lolcei of Aubrey Piper in "The Show Off" at the Abbott and Costello. as a riair of mm to be made into a play.

Robert Porterfield of the Barter Theater at With bonfire names of Clark Gable and Rosalind Russell for the landlubbers in Uncle Sam's sea John Barrymore Is in hot water Abingdon, had a role in the tne picture has a number of eae up to his finely etched profile. The morfv nii. imarquee, and a solid variety oi forces, find ample room for unroar-ious antics in "In the Navy," which 'opera from the radio and the discs 'tend even the movies, that It had 'become educated to big orchestras and talented casts. Spitz had three backers one of the Welre Brothers, the acrobatic dancers, who tossed in $13,000 as film, his first screen assignment, brashest of the Barrymorcs cut loose on the radio the other night with a gives them the entire fleet as a back and made a stage adaptation. He will offer it to the home folks and if it barrage of his famous ad libs that ground, now playing at the Roxie.

Abbott appears as the long-suffer One of these features Luis Alberni melodrama tinged with humor for demonstrating a Rube Goldberg rat satisfaction, "They Met in Bombay" "YUipg- is said to look like substantial, in Society" also follows a familiar pattern and It tob bounds Pendable entertainment material clicks try to get a Broadway show the radio networs consider infa Joe E. Brown Adds ing Robert Benchley will ro Ray Noble Stars At Sweet's Sunday ing electrician's mate whose big job gesture to Spitz for whom the team worked originally In Europe; Bette it is to keep pastry cook Costello mous. Johri can still remember hoW he made the matinee audiences titter with his off oolor remarks, while he was on tour with his play, into "You'll Never Get Rich" with Fred Astalre and Rita Hayworth at Columbia. in comedy gaes. Its claim to fame! lor tne season.

Jn iact, tne picture out-of trouble, an almost impossible His Circus Touch is that Penny Singleton who stepped vill be held over for a second and feat. The Andrews make "boogie- jJDavis, who gave $5000 and even went to the shows, and a film writer who made his contribution out of musical shows to create last week at the Tox Oakland. Benny Rubin, who did a rrettv Blondie, has a chance to demon One of the features of "The Show woogie" a part of National defense with their rendition of five new songs, and others in the cast in Gable and Miss Russell portray bad Job of a seal trainer in' "Sunny" strate her voice. She sings "Trees" Off" in which Joe E. Brown is star gets another whack at fame in and does an astonishingly good job of it, (TWENTY SEASONS AGO TODAY clude Dick Powell as the crooner who joins the Navy to run away ring at the Alcazar is not included The internationally famed composer-director, Ray Noble, will be at Sweet's Dancery this Sunday night for his only Northern California engagement, at the same time continuing this ballroom's established policy in bringing to local dance, devotees the finest bands available.

Ray Noble comes to Oakland after three consecutive years on the Gracie Allen-George Burns radio "My Dear Children." Whenever John Is on the aif, the studio has special men standing at the switch, whose jkob it is to watch Barrymore and cut him off the pir in case he "goes haywire. They've even got him working at a. separate mike so the technicians can cut him off and let the rest of the characters fill in. j'? Jimmy Duffy and Frankle Burns This Is Slimmer entertainment from fame; Claire Dodd as the jewel thieves competing for possession of a fabulously valuable, gem in Bombay on Empire Day. Circumstances of pursuit force them into a professional partnership which, during a series of adventures on in the play itself but in the special post-curtain number that the dome- "Heaven Can Wait" supporting Robert Montgomery "The Men in Her Xlfe" is the final title for Lor-etta Young's "Tonight Belongs to Us." It stems from the novel "Bal and very good of its kind.

newspaperwoman who pursues on me siage giving a jblow by blow portrayal of the Jack iDempsey-Georges Carpcntier fight. him; Dick Foran and Butch and dian presents at all performances Buddy. Bob Hope Heads "They're calling It an 'After shipboard and elsewhere, ripens lerina" by Lady Eleanor Smith and was once called "Woman of Desire." Sharing the bill is "Mr. Dyna Now he's been given his last chance. Either he must stick to the script into a romantic partnership, ulti- hour, and a long string of record- Ballerina" was supposed to be mite," with Lloyd Nolan, Irene Her-vey and Robert Armstrong featured.

ately marriage, finally the refor- or he will forever be off the air Orpheum Show' Brown said today, "but it's really the Concert he went on to explain, dates back to the circus era. based on the life of Paylowa. ation' of both. breaking hotel and night club engagements. His sophisticated and Mention of the Weircs, recalls Clifford Ct Fischer who brought them to the coast for the Fair at Treasure Island, and who has been Jiavlng his troubles with a South American tour.

a man without a network. KAY'S SOUTHERN CHARM High light of the melodrama Is a smart rhythms are said to make Hattie McDanlels option has been 'Night Train' Shows Work of Secret Police sequence in which Gable, donning the uniform of a British soldier for dancing almost imperative. taken up by Warners De Wolf Currently Kay Kyser is king of "I decided to add the specialty," he went on, "after I had received! Bop Hope is "Caught in the Draft" in the picture of that name which was moved today to the Orpheum Theater for a third week of un Hopper. son of Hedda 'and the Hollywood. That Southern charm When Fischer-completed his tour 'of the United States with the last mm he dishes out over the air and in the mvies is no act with Kay.

That's tne kind of a guy he is in private abated laughter. criminal purposes, is caught up In British-Japanese conflict in China and distinguishes himself so thoroughly that he is awarded the Victoria Cross. late De Wolf, will be in the cast of "They Died- With Their Boots On" supporting Errol Flynn. The picture goes into production this week with tcdition of the "Folies Bergore," he Jjtft E. O.

Bondeson in charge while Rookie Hope is just not suited for Army fife in his. latest he went scouting the South Amerl a number of requests to do various little poems like 'Little Mousle' and the like. It occurred to me that perhaps the theater goers would enjoy something that wasn't planned, simply informal. "We tried it in Los Angeles and the idea caught on at once. Now it He wants to be, though, because The Bride Wore Crutches" is the "can territory, 'Bondeson was to have The methods employed by both the German and English secret police during war time form the basis for "Night Train," an intense drama of war-time Europe, starting at the Broadway Theater today.

In the featured roles are Margaret Lockwood and Rex Harrison. The suspicion of most people that the life of a bill collector is all milk and honey is not confirmed in "Hold Raoul Walsh directing Fred As-tairo and Rita Hayworth are doing a six-and-a-half minute dance in the colonel's daughter is none other! quaint, title of the companion fea- accompanied the show but he began than Dorothy Lamour. Gun-shy, but ture. to think in terms of barbecue pit You'll Never Get Rich." It la a he was constructing in his Peninsula life. The boys in his band nevefrget around to hitting him for a raise Kay always beats them to it.

He's not foolish with money he's just got brains enough to plow it back into the organization that serves him so well. While many enother Hollywood hot-shot is bragging that he or she gave a single free performance for the boys in the not girl-shy, Hope plays a movie god whose agent signs up, too, so he; -r-, has become part and parcel of the home and checked out for San Fran. record for length. Cole "Porter provided the can get 10 per cent of the $21. lire OllieS fLOin cisco where he assumed charge of show.

The After-Show Is presented at The agent is veteran corned: in "Citizen Kane" run at the Geary, That Woman," the picture filling the the conclusion of each performance of "The Show Off." There will be Fischer, in the meantime, mRd All American second half of the program. Lynne Overman, who plays Hope's stooge, while his stooge is played by Eddie Brakcn. Saturday Show arrangements for the transportation The tenth in the "March bf Time' matinees Saturday. and Sunday. of his revue to the Copacabana at series will also be shown.

Mhir, huv iui a iuca will I Concert Billed nrtli- i 1 ccttui nig iue uuuiuitrs aim urn- 'Rio de Janeiro and the Mar del iUata, an Argentine resort, and made Army camps, Kay is off on a week's tour with his entire company numbering 16 entertainers, as well as his wife (not yet admitted by Kay or Ginny) Ginny Simms. For the stint, Kay is, of course, paying his trounc 'Miami Moon' PrVvt ensembles, which are delight Private Hope gets his chance when ing nightly audiences at Winterland, 'inquiries about a boat to move him and his company put of New York the war games begin. The Oakland WPA Symphony, A new second feature, "They Met the new Ice Follies will be presented in a special matinee Satur ibetween July JS and 31, directed by Nathan Abas, will pre At Paramount run wages and shelling out all the in Argentina," with Maureen Hara, Everything was proceeding on an day at 2:30 p.m. sent an all-Ajnerlcan program in expense from his own pocket. So come on, students, let's give Kav James Ellison and Buddy Ebsen in the leading roles, will be on the bill.

The daytime performance was set the Oakland Auditorium Theater Twenty-five years ago there was even keel until he asked for his lrv mirance from Lloyds. He was pre. wired to pay $5000 for $20,000 as. It is a musical, with Miss O'Hara iyser a Dig pat on the back. nothing at Miami Beach except wild on Friday at 8:30 p.m.

CINEMA CHATTER: Featured will be the young Negro jungle growth and a few beachcom bers' cottages. Now the Winter. surance that he would get the troupe iurider way and he almost had it in response to numerous requests from out-of-towners and from those unable to see the show at night, it was announced. It was also revealed by the Ice Follies management that the San Francisco engagement of the spec pianist, Don Anderson, playing Barbara Bennett (recently divorced from Morton Downey) and time population Is more than 80.000 'when the insurance company de. and Ebsen providing a romantic background to the whirling contortions of the newest Broadway sensation, Diosa Costello, and the singing of the Sopth American star, Alberto Vila.

Gershwin's "Rhapsody In her new hubby, Ad Randall, are yidod that the. case the S.S. Robin Moor was rather Important. They The WPA Negro Chorus of 35 and the city has become known as the 'glamor metropolis of the South. It provides the locale for the 20th baby-buggy shopping.

Liz Whit voices, trained by Elmer Keeton. hvnntrd no part of the policy, tacular show is necessarily limited ney and Bruce Cabot are out pricing parsons and will be stitched any will sing a group of Negro Spirituals. I So Fischer is now thinking again Minor Reed Stars by engagements in the 23 other North American cities in which it Century-Fox musical "Moon Over Miami," which opened this noon at the Paramount Theater. Not only wee-end now The Hollywood The balance of the oroeram will In terms of Hollywood; He has i jpouple of, Ideas and is confer ling with the Morils Office in re plays annually. At Moulin Rouge include the "Boston Sketches" of film biggies are evidently expecting a long war.

Before the fail of Mc MP! wen Ov, 1 course. gay, I has it been filmed in technicolor, but the cast Is unusual. It is headed by Betty Grable, Don Amcche, Minor Reed, comedian from New Paul White and the suite, "Skyscrapers," by Carpenter. vnid to It, Is. imperative that Jic keep his company working be- ties of wines and are now doing likewise with all Scottish and York, is starred in the colorful Charlotte Greenwood.

Jack Haley, 'Artist and Models" skit, which is English drinkin booze That now heading one of the many skits and includes Robert pummings. Carole Landis -and Cobina Wright Jr. 1UIL-. MMM scowl on Kay Francis' face is aimed in the direction of the voiine and many of the girls are here ore or less under bond to him and mce he can't return them to their European homes he must take care n't the Moulin Rouge Theater where Central to Feature Stage Entertainment -mr The other feature on the new the French Follies Revue is still program is "Fbr Beauty's Sake," in scoring a direct hit. Stage entertainment will be fea mi.

mem. I', in i'i TiiY'n i I. mi Among the many beauties appear which Ned Sparks, Joan Davis and Marjorie Weaver have the principal ing in the skit are Barbara Mayo, tured on the blll-of-fare at the Central Theater tonight when Walter I 1 JY XI IWi fits A lifetime of laffs JL, 111 1 plus -the IluM men yur 'eaP'n9 till 'iear can roles. 5 FORTY SEASONS AGO TODAY f' Walter Morosco has sold his Inter. luscious Marguerite Chapman, who is now dating Ivan Goff, Kay's writer-friend That neighborhood druggist in Brentwood didn't know why he had sold out all his ficla-and-opera glasses over the last week-end.

Someone should tip him off that Zorina is doing her sun bathing in her new Brentwood patio. Dalton Trumbo, the ace writer who's now fiettine fabulous Drices McCoy dips Into his gift basket and Georgia Clark, Doris Walker, Betty Jane" Douglas, Eleanor King, Billie Deaton and Francis Hanley. A gala program of "strip-tease" and spe it in the Grand Opera House to C. extracts, among other things, a vau dcville bill made up of LeRoy jU Ackerman and Morris Meyerfield pr. for Harry Morosco will Continue as manager of the theater.

cialty numbers are also listed. Red Lights," smashing drama of caner, raaio singer; Paul Hansen, who does things with the cornel: 'Amateur Frolic' at Downtown Tomorrow Don Santo's "Amateur Frolic" stage show is said to have gained a strong hold on Downtown Theatergoers mainly because of the variety found in stage entertainment and the way Don Santo presents his ana veruon 1 Beau, an exponent white slavery and dope, is featured on the screen. Other film enter-tainment'is also being offered. for what curls out of his typewriter, i rnytnm, jrew boys can Bet into wrote almost a hundred short trouble as consistently as Andv Hardy, but again few boys can have stories and half a dozen novels before his first word was sold an editor private secretary at their dlsoosal. amateurs to the public.

such as "Mr. Andy Hardy" has in Tomorrow night at 8:30 on the Anay. Hardy's Private Secretary." nOW Showing at thf rVntrnl Dfn. stage of the Downtown Theater another "Amateur Frolic" will be pre I all Ahis time, Mrs. Frank JUarris, widow of the author, has Won legal victory oyer Gilbert jMlller, Norman Marshall and Leslie find Scwell Stokes on her plagiarism jmlt growing out of "Oscar Mrs.

Harris contended that the fetokes' used Harris' "Oscar Wilde, Ills Life and Confessions" as a otirce.book for the. play and that phe was entitled, to a share in all profits of the play done in New York faith Robert Morloy in the role and i the Pacific Coast with Laird trocar. 5 I doubt it there were anv nrofils heads the cast, with Ann Rutherford, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden and sented. On the screen tonight and tomor many other notables in the picture. mBKvlrji Lh while jroa lram tksut 1 4lovt I jt ifi 1 1 1 1 row night Is "Chad Hanna" with among the murder mysteries.

"Murder A Henry Fonda and Dorothy Lamour also "A Little Bit of Heaven" starring Gloria Jean. Matures Marjorie Weaver. John Hubbard and Cobina Wright Jr. amTchi'I err the coast presentation which was riode by Arhtur Hutchinson, a new-finer to the business, but the Miller rroductlon did very well. Harris wrote' 'His 1018.

WHEN THE PICTURES START Recital, Lecture At Mills Postponed The recital and lecture in Ftgnch by Darius Milhaud and Madeleine Milhaud, assisted, by the Budapest String Quartet, formerly scheduled for tomorrow, will be held July 22 jme 15 years before his death. The Mokes' play wgs, in 103(1 BLONDIE fill (Society i JACK HAit' d.w. CUMNUNGS at 8:15 p.m. in the Hall for Chamh-r Esquire "Blondie In Society 12:05, 3:05, 6:05, 9:10 p.m.: "She Knew All the Answers," 1:25. 4 25 7:25, 10:30 p.m.

Music, Mills College. I i ox Oakland "They Mot in 12 noon, 2:37. 5:14, 7:51, 10:28 ihl'l'IMJI 4rs TTl'I'l 1 lyM Bride BATHING GIRL Contest Sat. July 12 Dancing Till 2 a.m. McFadden's Ballroom Chills and Thrills Love in P.m.; i ne Bride Wore Crutches," 1:33, 4:10, 6:47, 9:24 p.m.

Orpheum "They Met in Argentine," 12:10. 3:10. nnn fmmt 1 4 Wore Beauty Shop LOUIS vs. CONN FIGHT Tonliht At 10 p.m. Eller? Queen's Penthouse Mystery with Ralph Bellamy also J.

Withers GOLDEN HOOFS CRIME OO.KS NOT PAY 7vr Beauty 's Sake Caught in the Draft," 1:35, 4:35. 1 LOCKWOOD end the court agreed that some 37 Pirect quotations were taken from the book. The amusing side of all this is that the court appointed a master to determine "the profits which resulted by the use 'of Harris' book and rot the entire play." That's a Gordian knot for someone to untie. I'd hate to be hanging the accounting Js. made.

Exits and Entrances' -It looks as if M-G-M has decided put "The Yearling" away for the present That means a net loss of approximately $2,000,000 already pent in preparation and production. The stockholders of Loews fhould love that, particularly with Ned Sparks-Joan Davis. 10:25 p.m. Paramount "For Beauty's Sake" 12:18, 3:10. 6:02.

"Mnnn nr Marjorie Weaver TONIGHT Ri.10-MA1 III HARRISON Miami," 1:36. 4:28. 7:28. 10-ls NIGHT TRAIN 1Q ROMBtfK Roxie "In the Naw "'4 IsVrl'ieTTvI; th Century umST FLIGHI 2:35, 5:10. 7:45.10:20 nm- "Mr E5 1 i MARCH OF TIME vr'a most namite," 1:30, 4:05.

6:40. 9:15 tm news CRISIS IN THE ATLANTIC" YcuieLmi en lORTHERNiSLlFORNIA NEGRO'CHORUS NATHAN ABAS, Conductor DON ANDERSON, Pianist ALL AMERICAN CONCERT Tomorrow Evening at 8:30 Oakland Auditorium Theater Seats 25c and 40c Plus Tax Calif. State Dept. at Education Northern California Musle Project Work Projects Administration 2Hi (IN rrZmm. MAOIC TECHNICOLOR Sunday IVite! JJM Romantic fun ''1 U-T 1 1 1 -J iTr The Year's flSKSl The World' Top Band! nil' VONIM.

Carr vni GBANT HI'RBVI ENDS TONIOHTI THIEF OF BAGDAD All. WM. BOYD ATDEN THREE MEN FROM TEXAS Mm COLOR CARTOON 'JZmmm til gin 'PENNY SERENADE Compoarr-Dlrrctor A Ml -ifnimirBien II nrt limn Nancy Kelly John Loer Youth on rampage! NEW STAGE SHOW Charlie Chaplin THE GREAT DICTATOR And WAERF.N WILLIAM III i W'ol' Take Chm II LxxuujjijjLUJi. Til i at 7.VA 'IrtH WLff II 1 GLAMOUR ,19 Mteker Kany Kt. V-ti T.

wlth ar I Maureen 1 O'HARA mm 1 i j4 Ellison I LsmJCS ti EBSE.Vyf AiifffotM Uutch EAST INDIES ufn.ntjX Set for War B-l I If Mlthty Womher Tested! 1 BKNRX TONDA-DOROTHT LAMOUR "ZJ 7 It's Darlnt It Hat Andy Hardy'i Private Secretary! In Technicolor! BLOOD SAND Tmmt Fower-LInd Darnell Also SCOTLAND YARD Opening FRIDAY, JULY 48, 7 P.M. Marinrie Wearer Jehn Huhb "Murder Among Friends' "CHAM IIAJV1VA" GLORIA JEAH A Little Bit of Heaven RED-LIGHTS.